As to the First, methought I had some feeling in thePassion of Christ, but yet I desired more by the grace ofGod. Methought I would have been that time with MaryMagdalene, and with other that were Christ's lovers, andtherefore I desired a bodily sight wherein I might havemore knowledge of the bodily pains of our Saviour andof the compassion of our Lady and of all His true loversthat saw, that time, His pains. For I would be one ofthem and suffer with Him. Other sight nor shewing ofGod desired I never none, till the soul were dispartedfrom the body. The cause of this petition was thatafter the shewing I should have the more true mind inthe Passion of Christ.
But "Regard" (scope of true, continuing, divine Sight, Insight,All-comprehending sight) seems more likely to be the true rendering."Long and broad" go strangely with the word, but on p. 113 thelength and breadth of the garments is interpreted immediately after thecolour of the eyes, and is said to betoken that "He hath in Him, allHeavens, and all Joy and Bliss," and indeed these words but fill outthe idea of the more frequently used "high" to signify the "enclosing"of "endless heavens:" that Sphere of "fulness" which is infinite.With this passage may be compared one below, on p. 113: "TheMerciful Beholding of His loving Cheer fulfilled all earth and descendeddown with Adam into hell, ... and thus Mercy and Pitydwelleth with mankind unto the time we come up into Heaven." Theother, the Inward, the high Beholding or Regard it not said to "fill"Heaven, but to be "full of" endless Heavens. So elsewhere it is saidthat in our Sense-soul, the lower part of human nature, God dwells, butthat our Substance, the higher part, dwells in God. (The regard of Mercyand Pity is with the Sense-soul; the high Regard of Joy and Bliss is withthe Substance.) P. 132, chap. lv.: "I saw that our Substance is in God,and also I saw that in our Sense-soul God is." lvi. p. 135:" The worshipfulCity that our Lord Jesus sitteth in, it is our Sense-part, inwhich He is enclosed; and our Nature-Substance is beclosed in Jesus,with the blessed Soul of Christ sitting in rest in the Godhead."
And in our spiritual forthbringing He useth moretenderness of keeping, without any likeness: byas much as our soul is of more price in His sight. Hekindleth our understanding, He directeth our ways, Heeaseth our conscience, He comforteth our soul, Helighteneth our heart, and giveth us, in part, knowingand believing in His blissful Godhead, with graciousmind in His sweet Manhood and His blessed Passion,with reverent marvelling in His high, overpassing Goodness;and maketh us to love all that He loveth, for Hislove, and to be well-pleased with Him and all His works.And when we fall, hastily He raiseth us by His lovelycalling[1][2] and gracious touching. And when we be[Pg 153]thus strengthened by His sweet working, then we withall our will choose Him, by His sweet grace, to be Hisservants and His lovers lastingly without end.
In the name of Allah, whose love made this book possible. Blessings be upon the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ, whose gentle mercy has taught me how to walk in faith. I am deeply grateful to all the prophets, whose examples help guide me on the path of divine love. To Sidi, who taught me how to hear the music of my soul. To my mother, whose softness and prayers changed the course of my destiny. To my father, who embodies what it means to be a sincere and generous servant of God. To Amir, whose kind heart and sweet soul teaches me how to love. To my grandfather, whose spiritual stories fill the pages of this book. To my family, who have always unconditionally supported me. To my soul friends, whose wisdom and love uplifts and inspires me. To my spiritual community and in particular my teachers who taught me how to love God and experience His unending peace. To the hundreds of thousands of kind souls in our beautiful online community, who taught me what it means to be vulnerable and sincere. To my editors and designers, for guiding this book towards its greatest potential. And in the loving memory of Esmat, who embodied what it means to be joyful, kind, and selfless. I dedicate this book to all of you and to all the spiritual seekers seeking the path of divine love and truth. All praise to God.
In left-to-right order, each item listed below is identifiedby (a) Donne Variorum short form (noncan = noncanonical), (b) heading plusfirst line, and (c) its location in the artifact (by folio or page nos.).Printer to the Understanders A3-A4Hexastichon Bibliopolae ["I seen in his last"] A4vHexastichon ad Bibliopelam. / Incerti ["In thy Impression of Donne"] A4vSONGS AND SONETS.Flea The Flea ["Mark but this flea"] 001-2GoodM The Good Morrow ["I wonder by my troth"] 002-3SGo Song ["Go, and catch a falling star"] 003-4WomCon Woman's Constancy ["Now thou has loved me one whole day"] 004Under The Undertaking ["I have done one braver thing"] 004-5SunRis The Sun Rising ["Busie old fool, unruly sun"] 006-7Ind The Indifferent ["I can love both fair and brown"] 007-8LovUsury Love's Usury ["For every hour that thou wilt spare me"] 008-9Canon The Canonization ["For God's sake hold your tongue"] 009-10Triple The Triple Fool ["I am two fools, I know"] 010-11LovInf Lovers' Infiniteness ["If yet I have not all thy love"] 011-012SSweet Song ["Sweetest love, I do not go"] 012-14Leg The Legacy ["When I died last"] 014-15Feaver A Feaver ["Oh do not die"] 015-16Air Air and Angels ["Twice or thrice had I loved"] 016-17Break Break of Day ["'Tis true, 'tis day"] 017-18Anniv The Anniversary ["All kings and all their favorites"] 018-19ValName A Valediction of my Name in the Window ["My name engraved herein"] 019-22Twick Twickenham garden ["Blasted with sighs and surrounded with tears"] 022-23ValBook A Valediction of the Book ["I'll tell thee now"] 023-25Commun Community ["Good we must love"] 025-26LovGrow Love's Growth ["I scarce believe my love to be so pure"] 026-27LovExch Love's Exchange ["Love, any devil else but you"] 027-29ConfL Confined Love ["Some man unworthy"] 029-30Dream The Dream ["Dear love, for nothing less"] 030-31ValWeep A Valediction of Weeping ["Let me pour forth"] 031-32LovAlch Love's Alchemy ["Some that have deeper digged"] 032-33Curse The Curse ["Whoever guesses, thinks, or dreams"] 033-34Mess The Message ["Send home my long strayed eyes"] 034-35Noct A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy's Day ["'Tis the year's midnight"] 035-37Witch Witchcraft by a Picture ["I fix mine eye on thine"] 037Bait The Bait ["Come live with me"] 037-38Appar The Apparition ["When by thy scorn"] 039Broken The Broken Heart ["He is stark mad"] 039-40ValMourn A Valediction Forbidding Mourning ["As virtuous men pass mildly away"] 041-42Ecst The Ecstasy ["Where, like a pillow on a bed"] 042-44LovDeity Love's Deity ["I long to talk with some old"] 045-46LovDiet Love's Diet ["To what a cumbersome unwieldiness"] 046-47Will The Will ["Before I sigh my last gasp"] 047-49Fun The Funeral ["Whoever comes to shroud me"] 049-50Blos The Blossom ["Little thinkest thou"] 050-51Prim The Primrose ["Upon this primrose hill"] 051-52Relic The Relic ["When my grave is broke up again"] 052-53Damp The Damp ["When I am dead"] 054Dissol The Dissolution ["She is dead"] 055Jet A Jet Ring Sent ["Thou art not so black"] 055-56NegLov Negative Love ["I never stooped so low"] 056-57Prohib The Prohibition ["Take heed of loving me"] 057-58Expir The Expiration ["So, so, break off"] 058Compu The Computation ["For the first twenty years"] 058Para The Paradox ["No lover saith, I love"] 059noncan Song ["Soules joy, now I am gone"] 059-60Fare Farewell to Love ["Whilst yet to prove"] 060-62noncan Song ["Deare Love continue nice and chaste"] 062-63Lect A Lecture upon the Shadow ["Stand still and I will read"] 063-64EPIGRAMSHero Hero and Leander ["Both robbed of air"] 065Pyr Pyramus and Thisbe ["Two by themselves each other"] 065Niobe Niobe ["By children's birth and death"] 065Ship A Burnt Ship ["Out of a fired ship"] 065Wall Fall of a Wall ["Under an undermined and shot-bruised wall"] 066Beggar A Lame Beggar ["I am unable, yonder beggar cries"] 066SelfAc A Self Accuser ["Your mistress, that you follow whores"] 066Licent A Licentious Person ["Thy sins and hairs"] 066Antiq Antiquary ["If in his study"] 066Disinher Disinherited ["Thy father all from thee"] 066Phrine Phrine ["Thy flattering picture, Phrine"] 067Philo An Obscure Writer ["Philo with twelve years' study"] 067Klock Klockius ["Klockius so deeply hath sworn"] 067Martial Raderus ["Why this man gelded Martial"] 067Merc Mercurius Gallo-Belgicus ["Like Aesop's fellow slaves"] 067Ralph Ralphius ["Compassion in the world again is bred"] 067ELEGIESElJeal Jealosy ["Fond woman which would'st have thy husband die"] 068-69ElAnag The Anagram ["Marry and love thy Flavia"] 069-71ElChange Change ["Although thy hand and faith"] 071-72ElPerf The Perfume ["Once and but once found in thy company"] 072-74ElPict His Picture ["Here take my picture"] 075ElServe "Oh, let me not serve so" 075-77ElNat "Nature's lay idiot" 077-78ElComp The Comparison ["As the sweet sweat of roses in a still"] 078-80ElAut The Autumnal ["No spring nor summer beauty"] 080-82Image "Image of her whom I love" 082-83BoulNar Elegy upon the Death of Mrs. Boulstred ["Language thou art too narrow"] 083-85ElBrac The Bracelet ["Not that in color it was like thy hair"] 085-88noncan ELEG. XIII. ["Come, Fates; I feare you not. All whom I owe"] 089-90ElPart His Parting From Her ["Since she must go"] 091-92Julia ELEG.XV. / Julia. ["Harke newes, o envy"] 092-93Citizen ELEG.XVI. / A Tale of a Citizen and his Wife. 093-96ElExpost The Expostulation ["To make the doubt clear"] 096-98EPITHALAMIONS, / OR, / MARRIAGE SONGS.EpEliz An Epithalamion . . . on the Lady Elizabeth ["Hail, Bishop Valentine"] 099-103Eclog Eclogue at the Marriage of the Earl of Sommerset ["Unseasonable man, statue of ice"] 104-14EpLin Epithalamion Made at Lincoln's Inn ["The sunbeams in the east"] 114-17SATYRES.Sat1 "Away thou fondling motley humorist" 118-21Sat2 "Sir, though (I thank God for it) I do hate" 121-25Sat3 "Kind pity chokes my spleen" 125-28Sat4 "Well, I may now receive and die" 129-36Sat5 "Thou shalt not laugh in this leaf, Muse" 136-39noncan Satyre VI. ["Men write that love and reason disagree"] 139-41LETTERS / TO SEVERALL / PERSONAGES.Storm The Storm ["Thou which art I"] 141-43Calm The Calm ["Our storm is past"] 144-45HWKiss To Sir Henry Wotton ["Sir, more then kisses"] 146-48HG To Sr. Henry Goodyere ["Who makes the past a pattern"] 148-50RWThird To Mr. R. W. ["Like one who in her third widdowhood"] 150-51HWNews To Sir Henry Wotton ["Here's no more news"] 151-52BedfReas To the Countess of Bedford ["Reason is our soul's left hand"] 153-54BedfRef To the Countess of Bedford ["You have refined me"] 154-57EdHerb To Sir Edward Herbert ["Man is a lump"] 157-58BedfWrit To the Countess of Bedford ["To have written then"] 159-61BedfTwi To the Countess of Bedford: On New-Year's Day ["This twilight of two years"] 162-64HuntMan To the Countess of Huntingdon ["Man to God's image"] 164-67TWHail To Mr. T. W. ["All hail sweet poet"] 167-68TWHarsh To Mr. T. W. ["Haste thee harsh verse"] 168TWPreg To Mr. T. W. ["Pregnant again"] 169TWHence To Mr. T. W. ["At once from hence"] 169-70CB To Mr. C. B. ["Thy friend whom thy deserts"] 170SB To Mr. S. B. ["O thou which to search"] 170-71BB To Mr. B.B. ["Is not thy sacred hunger"] 171-72RWSlumb To Mr. R. W. ["If as mine is thy life a slumber be"] 172-73ILRoll To Mr. I.L. ["Of that short roll"] 173-74ILBlest To Mr. I.L. ["Blest are your north parts"] 174ED To E. of D. with Six Holy Sonnets ["See, Sir, how as the sun's"] 174-75HWVenice To Sir H. W. at his Going Ambassador to Venice ["After those reverend papers"] 175-76MHPaper To Mrs. M. H. ["Mad paper stay"] 177-79BedfHon To the Countess of Bedford ["Honor is so sublime"] 179-81HuntUn To the Countess of Huntington ["That unripe side of earth"] 181-85noncan A dialogue between Sr. Henry Wotton and Mr. Donne ["If her distaine least change"] 185-86BedfDead To the Countess of Bedford. Begun in France ["Though I be dead and buried"] 187Carey A Letter to the Lady Carey, & Mrs. Essex Rich ["Here where by all"] 188-90Sal To the Countess of Salisbury, August. 1614. ["Faire, great, and good"] 190-93BedfShe To the Lady Bedford ["You that are she"] 193-94Sappho Sapho to Philanis ["Where is that holy fire"] 195-97noncan To Ben Johnson, 6 Jan. 1603 ["The State and mens affaires"] 197-98noncan To Ben Johnson, 9. Novembrie,1603 ["If great men wrong me"] 198-99noncan To Sir Tho. Rowe. 1603. ["Tell her if she to hired sevants"] 199-200Praise To the Praise of the Dead and the Anatomy (by Joseph Hall) ["Well died the world"] 200-02FirAn The First Anniversary. An Anatomy of the World ["When that rich soul"] 202-17FunEl A Funeral Elegy ["'Tis lost to trust a tomb"] 217-20Harb The Harbinger to the Progress (by Joseph Hall) 221-22SecAn The Second Anniversary. Of the Progress of the Soul 223-39EPICEDES AND OBSEQUIES / Upon The deaths of sundry PersonagesHenry Elegy on the untimely Death of . . . Prince Henry ["Look to me, Faith"] 240-43Har (ltr) To the Countess of Bedford ["I have learned"] 243-44Har Obsequies to the Lord Harrington ["Fair soul, which wast not only"] 244-52Mark Elegy on the Lady Markham ["Man is the world"] 252-54BoulRec Elegy on Mistris Boulstred ["Death, I recant"] 254-57ElFatal Elegy on His Mistress ["By our first strange and fatal interview"] 257-58BedfCab Elegie ["That I might make your cabinet"] 259noncan Elegy on Mistris Boulstred ["Death be not proud, thy hand"] 259-61Sorrow Elegia ["Sorrow, who to this house"] 261-62Coryat Upon Mr. Thomas Coryat's Crudities ["Oh to what height"] 262-64 [end of Funerall Elegies]Token Sonnet. The Token ["Send me some token"] 264-65LETTERS [prose except Libro] HEN. GOODEERE ["Etiam vulgari lingua"] 265-67Libro De Libro Cum Mutuaretur ["Doctissimo Amicissimoque v. D. D. Andrews"] 268To Sir H.G. ["I send not"] 269-71To Sir H.G. ["Sir, / Nature hath made"] 271-73To the La.G. ["MADAME, / I am not come"] 273-74To my honour'd friend G.G. Esquier. ["SIR. / Neither your letters"] 274-76To my honour'd friend G.G. Esquier. ["SIR, / I should not onely"] 276-77To my honour'd friend G.G. Esquier. ["SIR, / This advantage you"] 277-78To Sir H.G. ["SIR, / This Tuesday morning"] 278-81To Sir H.G. ["SIR, / In the history or stile"] 281-82To Sir H.G. ["SIR, / It should bee no"] 282-84To the Countesses of Bedford. ["Happiest and worthiest Lady"] 285To Sir H.G. ["SIR, / Because I am in a place"] 286-87To Sir H.G. ["SIR, / I hope you are now well"] 287-89Metem INFINITATI SACRVM / 16 August 1601 / METEMPSYSOSISMetem epistle ["Others at the Porches"] U(V)1v-V2v THE / PROGRESS/ OF THE SOVLE. ["I sing the progress"] 293-313HOLY SONNETS. [page header is Divine Poems]Cor1 La Corona ["Deign at my hands"] 313Cor2 Annunciation ["Salvation to all that will is nigh"] 313-14Cor3 Nativity ["Immensity cloistered in thy dear womb"] 314Cor4 Temple ["With his kind mother who partakes thy woe"] 314-15Cor5 Crucifying ["By miracles exceeding power of man"] 315Cor6 Resurrection ["Moist with one drop of thy blood"] 315-16Cor7 Ascension ["Salute the last and everlasting day"] 316[Holy Sonnets.]HSMade "Thou hast made me" 316-17HSDue "As due by many titles" 317HSSighs "O might those sighs" 317-18HSBlack "O my black soul" 318HSLittle "I am a little world" 318-19HSScene "This is my play's last scene" 319HSRound "At the round earth's imagined corners" 319-20HSSouls "If faithful souls" 320HSMin "If poisonous minerals" 320-21HSDeath "Death be not proud" 321HSSpit "Spit in my face" 321-22HSWhy "Why are we by all creatures" 322HSWhat "What if this present" 322-23HSBatter "Batter my heart" 323HSWilt "Wilt thou love God" 323-24HSPart "Father part of his double interest" 324noncan On the blessed Virgin Mary. ["In that, O Queene of Queenes"] 324-25Cross The Cross ["Since Christ embraced"] 325-27noncan Davison's Psalm 137 ["By Euphrates flowry side"] 327-30Res Resurrection imperfect ["Sleep, sleep, old sun"] 330-31Ham (ltr) To Sir Robert Carr ["I presume you rather trie"] 331Ham An Hymn to the Saints and to the Marquis Hamilton ["Whether that soul which now comes"] 331-33Annun Upon the Annunciation and Passion ["Tamely frail body"] 333-34Goodf Goodfriday, 1613. Riding Westward ["Let man's soul be a sphere"] 334-36Lit A Litany ["Father of heaven and him"] 336-46Sidney Upon the Translation of the Psalms by Sir Philip Sidney ["Eternal God, (for whom who ever dare...)"] 346-48noncan Ode ["Vengeance will sit above our faults"] 348-49Tilman To Mr. Tilman After He Had Taken Orders ["Thou whose diviner soul"] 349-50Christ A Hymn to Christ at the Author's Last Going into Germany ["In what torn ship soever"] 350noncan On the Sacrament ["He was the Word that spake it"] 352Lam The Lamentations of Jeremy ["How sits this city"] 352-66BedfCab On Himself ["My Fortune and my choice this custome break"] 366-67Sickness A Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness ["Since I am coming"] 367-68Father A Hymn to God the Father "[Wilt thou forgive"] 368[end of Divine Poems][Elegies on Author's death] unpaginatedTo the Memorie of My Ever Desired Friend Dr. Donne. ["To have liv'd eminent, in a degree"] [369-70]In obitum venerabilis viri Iohannis Donne ["Conquerar? ignavoq%M sequar tua funera planctu?"] [371-73]On the death of Dr. Donne ["I cannot blame those men, that knew thee well"] [374]On Doctor Donne, by Doctor C.B. of O. ["Hee that would write an Epitaph for thee"] [374-75]An Elegie upon the incomparable Dr. Donne ["All is not well, when such an one as I"] [375-77]An Elegie upon Dr. Donne. ["Ovr Donne is dead; England should mourne"] [377-79]Elegie on D.D. ["Now, by one yeare, time and our frailtie have"] [380-81]On Dr. John Donne, late Deane of S. Paules, / London. ["Long since this taske of teares from you was due"] [381-84]An Elegie upon the death of the Deane of Pauls, Dr. John Donne, by M. Tho. Carie. ["Can we not force from widdowed Poetry"] [384-87]An Elegie on D. Donne: By Sir Lucius Cary. ["Poets attend, the Elegie I sing"] [387-90]On Dr. Donnes death: by M Mayne of Christ- / church in Oxford. ["Who shall presume to mourne thee, Donne, unlesse"] [390-92]Vpon Mr. J. Donne, and his Poems. ["Who dares say thou art dead, whe%M he doth see"] [393-94]Epitaph upon D. Donne, by Endy. Porter. ["This decent Vrne a sad inscription weares"] [395]In memory of Dr. Donne, by Mr. R.B. ["Donne dead? 'Tis here reported true, though I"] [396-99]Epitaph. ["Here lies Deane Donne"] [399]Headings] The Printer to / To the Understanders A3-A4 running head: Poems (verso of page) 2-264 Letters. (" " ") 266-88 Poems. 294-368 Elegies Upon the Author. 370-99 Songs and Sonets 3-63 Epigrams. 65-67 Elegies. 69-97 Epithalamions. 99-117 Satyres. 119-39 Letters. 141-199 Funerall Elegies. 201-63 Letters. 265-89 Epistle. V2-V2v Progresse of the Soule. 295-311 Divine Poems. 313-67 Elegies Upon the Author. 370-99 Poems not included in 1649 AltVic A Letter Written by Sir H. G. and J. D. Alternis Vicibus ["Since every tree begins"] Amic Amicissimo et Meritissimo Ben Jonson ["Quod arte ausus es hic tua"] AutHook Ad Autorem ["Non eget Hookerus"] AutJos Ad Autorem ["Emendare cupis Joseph"] Cales Cales and Guiana ["If you from spoil"] EG To Mr. E. G. ["Even as lame things"] EgDD Epigraph from Death's Duel ["Corporis haec animae"] Elegies: ElBed Going to Bed ["Come, Madam, come"] ElProg Love's Progress ["Whoever loves, if he do not propose"] ElVar Variety ["The heavens rejoice in motion"] ElWar Love's War ["Till I have peace with thee"]EtAD Epitaph on Ann Donne ["Annae Georgii More de filiae"] EtED Epitaph on Elizabeth Drury ["Quo pergas, viator"] EtRD Epitaph on Robert Drury ["Roberti Druri/ quo vix alter"] EtSP Epitaph in Saint Paul's ["Ioannes Donne/ Sac: Theol: profess:"] Faust Faustinus ["Faustinus keeps his sister"]Gaz Translated out of Gazaeus ["God grant thee thine own wish"] GHerb To Mr. George Herbert With One of My Seals ["Qui prius assuetus serpentum"] Heart "When my heart was mine own" Holy Sonnets: HSShe "Since she whom I loved" HSShow "Show me dear Christ" HSVex "O to vex me"HWHiber H. W. in Hibernia Belligeranti ["Went you to conquer?"] Ignatius, verse from IgAver "Aversa facie Janum referre" IgFeath "Feathers or straws swim on the water's face" IgFlow "As a flower wet with last night's dew" IgLark "The lark by busy and laborious ways" IgNoise "With so great noise and horror" IgOper "Operoso tramite scandent" IgPiece "That the least piece which thence doth fall" IgPlum "Aut plumam, aut paleam" IgQual "Qualis hesterno madefacta rore" IgResemb"Resemble Janus with a diverse face" IgSport "My little wandering sportful soul" IgTanto "Tanto fragore boatuque"InAA Inscription in Corvinus' Album Amicorum ["In propria venit"] InLI Inscription in Bible at Lincoln's Inn ["In Bibliotheca Hospitii"] Jug The Juggler ["Thou callest me effeminate"] Liar The Liar ["Thou in the fields walkest"] Macaron In Eundem Macaronicon ["Quot, dos, haec, linguists"] MHMary To the Lady Magdalen Herbert, of St. Mary Magdalen ["Her of your name"] RWEnvy To Mr. R. W. ["Kindly I envy thy songs"] RWMind To Mr. R. W. ["Muse not that by thy mind"] RWZeal To Mr. R. W. ["Zealously my muse"] SelfL Self Love ["He that cannot choose but love"] Stat Stationes (from Devotions) ["Insultus morbi primus"] Walton's Lives, verse from WaltDeo "Deo opt. max. benigno" WaltMult"Multiplicate sunt super" WaltQuid"Quid habeo quid non acceppi"Wing Sir John Wingfield ["Beyond th'old pillars"]
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